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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Caltech/K. Miller and R. Hurt (IPAC) Astronomers may have discovered the first example of ...

The cosmos has delivered a rare kind of fireworks display, and astronomers are racing to understand what it means. A strange double flash from a distant galaxy appears to show two neutron stars ...

Explosions of all varieties are booming throughout the universe. When a massive star dies, for instance, it bursts in a bright supernova, sometimes leaving behind a dead core called a neutron star.

In a strange turn of events, a supernova birthed twin baby neutron stars that merged to make a powerful kilonova. Reading time 3 minutes When massive stars die, they go out in fiery explosions called ...

Astronomers have spotted a distant star that seems to have exploded twice. The blast may be the first-ever known “superkilonova” — a chimera of a supernova and a neutron star merger, researchers ...